The distorting mirror : visual modernity in China /

The distorting mirror : visual modernity in China /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pang, Laikwan.
Imprint:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
Description:	viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Arts, Chinese -- 19th century. Arts, Chinese -- 20th century. Modernism (Aesthetics) -- China. Identity (Psychology) -- China. Arts and society -- China. Arts and society. Arts, Chinese. Identity (Psychology) Modernism (Aesthetics) China.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6633580

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ISBN:	9780824830939 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0824830938 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-272) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I. The Pictorial
Chapter 1. The Pictorial Turn and the Realist Desire
Chapter 2. Photography, Performance, and the Making of Female Images
Chapter 3. Advertising and the Visual Display of Women
Part II. The Theatrical
Chapter 4. Peking Opera, from Listening to Watching
Chapter 5. Walking into and out of China's Early Film Scene
Chapter 6. Magic and Modernity
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index